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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Nizwa surrendered at the sight of a line-up of Muscati infantrymen, supported by Trucial Oman Scouts and British regulars. The Muscatis, wearing plaid skirts and checkered headcloths, were flanked by British armored cars and machine-guns. Down came the white flag of the Imam, up went the red flag of the Sultan. But holed up in the Oman mountains other rebel forces were still hiding and the Imam himself was yet to be found-or even heard from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSCAT & OMAN: The Red & the White | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...Germany with her sister Alice, who was later to become the first woman professor at Harvard Medical School. In those days the University of Munich was a famous classics center, and even though no woman had ever been admitted before. Edith was soon a familiar sight in Munich's classrooms, seated at her special place, isolated from the males, on the speaker's platform. In 1896, she was made headmistress of Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. There, for 26 years, "Miss Edith" remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Athenian | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Richard has been called to renounce his crown in the sight of the Commons, to cloak Bolingbroke's usurpation in an air of constitutionality. The formal phrases of abdication are written in rhyming couplets, which Gervasi delivers with heavy emphasis on accents and rhymes, his sing-song manner perfectly bringing out the empty formality and compulsion by which Richard is relinquishing his throne...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: The Play's the Thing | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

...league's executive secretary is one of those who are so preoccupied with the method that they lose sight of the result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...clings nobly to his massive martini shaker and the vague notion that he would rather be "some place down the ladder where he can use his energies naturally-not be afraid all the time-be himself." Despite an occasionally listless script ("Oh dear, I can't stand the sight of blood"). Success got its savor from fine performances by Dependable Actress Eileen Heckart and TV's perennial Big-Business Boss Everett Sloane, stood in a class apart from the summer insipidity by managing to meet some of TV's toughest demands: a neatly organized plot, pitiless closeups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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